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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.online/users/elizabethtasker/statuses/113960400015107299">Elizabeth Tasker (elizabethtasker@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:29:00 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/@elizabethtasker" title="elizabethtasker@mastodon.online"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/150164-48-20240119191459.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Elizabeth Tasker" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Elizabeth Tasker</a></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JAXA" rel="tag">#JAXA</a> ISAS publishes a really nice newsletter each month, with updates on current and planned missions, future ideas, and interviews. It's only in Japanese, so I asked if we could publish little English summaries. Here's our first month!</p><p>(Full newsletter: <a href="https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/outreach/isas_news/2025/" rel="nofollow">https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/outreach/isas_news/2025/</a>)</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4539319#notice-8887654">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-02-10T12:29:00+09:00" title="Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:29:00 JST">about 22 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.online/@elizabethtasker/113960400015107299" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.online via ActivityPub">mastodon.online</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.online/@elizabethtasker/113960400015107299">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4111987">"Navigation, Guidance &amp; Control for the Comet Interceptor flyby" by Sasaki Takahiro &amp; Sakatani Naoya (JAXA). Comet Interceptor is an ESA-led mission to make a flyby of a long-period comet. JAXA is developing one of the two ultra-small probes that will enable images to be captured from different locations. A flyby is a rapid “one-chance event”. The probe must operate autonomously, with no time for help from ground control, successfully identify and image the comet with minimal prior information, and withstand any collisions from dust. It’s a unique challenge for the team!</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/960/395/888/627/806/original/ded9955dcd923ab9.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/960/395/888/627/806/original/ded9955dcd923ab9.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4111988">ISAS Information (four short news bites): (1) Comet Interceptor development has begun, with testing of the EFM (Electrical &amp; Functional Model) and SQM (Structural Qualification Model) designed to confirm that the JAXA ultra-small probe can properly exchange electrical information with the ESA main spacecraft, and test feasibility of the structure. (2) After achieving a pinpoint Moon landing on January 20, 2024, with a precision of about 10m or less, with one of the world’s lightest lunar landers, the SLIM Project is officially complete! (3) The MAXI 15th Anniversary International Workshop was held at Nihon University in December. MAXI is an all-sky X-ray monitoring instrument mounted to the Japan Kibo module onboard the ISS, making discoveries such as the bright and variable black hole, MAXI J1820+070! (4) Akebono observed the Earth’s magnetosphere for 26 years, completing operations in 2015. The satellite has now re-entered the atmosphere.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/960/396/111/134/249/original/4717fb88bd4bf866.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/960/396/111/134/249/original/4717fb88bd4bf866.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4111989">"The importance of lunar seismology" by Kawamura Taichi, Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris. Analysis of lunar seismic waves or “Moonquakes” allow exploration of the Moon’s internal structure. While seismometers carried during the Apollo program were informative, the data was complicated by the long vibration and scattering of seismic waves due to the Moon’s sandy regolith and lack of atmosphere and water, and only covered the near side. A next-generation lunar seismic network could use multiple broadband seismometers, which are less affected by scattered waves, distributed globally on the lunar surface, to generate a three-dimensional structure of the inside of the Moon.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/960/396/377/897/551/original/2c8adc87a9feab12.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/960/396/377/897/551/original/2c8adc87a9feab12.png</a></li><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4111990">Interview with Maru Yusuke, Associate Professor, Department of Space Flight Systems. Born in Hokkaido, Maru Yusuke gained his doctorate in engineering from the University of Tokyo and joined JAXA in 2008. He is an expert in space transport systems. His research explores the development of “spaceplanes” which, unlike rockets, effectively use the Earth’s atmosphere to head into space. Using wind tunnel experiments, Maru studies how a spaceplane can take in air, before compressing and mixing with fuel to burn and generate thrust. Maru works on developing inter-orbit transfer vehicles that fly from a low Earth orbit into deep space, looking at the possibility of standardising parts to reduce cost.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/960/396/616/694/470/original/dd4758fdcbcc094d.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/960/396/616/694/470/original/dd4758fdcbcc094d.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.isas.jaxa.jp</div><h5><a href="https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/outreach/isas_news/2025/">ISASニュース：2025年 | 宇宙科学研究所</a></h5><div></div></header><div></div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Elizabeth Tasker (elizabethtasker@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 12:29:00 JST Elizabeth Tasker
#JAXA ISAS publishes a really nice newsletter each month, with updates on current and planned missions, future ideas, and interviews. It's only in Japanese, so I asked if we could publish little English summaries. Here's our first month!
(Full newsletter: https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/outreach/isas_news/2025/)
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